On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear devs, > > Is there documentation about the web-api. Like what resources support > GET/POST? I see a list of all the resources and 4 representations, but is > there more detailed documentation??
It is only /dataValueSets and /messages which support post. The rest supports get only for now. > > I also recently saw commits from Lars that implementing caching for WebAPI. > Is there any reason not to use ETags for the purpose?? That will enable to > check if new content is exposed by the web service or not and seems like the > standard way for update checks. Server-side validation / etag based caching is not useful in this scenario since the main purpose (besides saving network usage) is to reduce the load on the server - if you are to produce reliable hashes/etags then you will have to generate those reports/charts first anyway. The idea now is to use the knowledge of when the data in the reports are refreshed. And then we might as well use expiration caching (cache-control/expiry headers) and let the client cache the representations completely and thus avoid the validation round-trip. Will write some more about this later. > > Is there a way to create organization units through the Web API?? If not the > web api, are there any considerations to adding org units on-the-fly, > attaching datasets and collecting data. I vaguely remember having to do > something with resource tables. Is that still necessary?? No not at the moment but we will include it later. Resource tables are not required. > > Too many questions probably in one email... but all somehow related to one > another. > > > --- > Regards, > Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA > > My Tech Blog: http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com > You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
